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Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Face of Homelesssness (Kings Road) finds a new home

The Face of Homelessness at the ROI.

The Face of Homelessness (Kings Road) found a new home last year! It's always great when someone comes along and really falls in love with an artwork and also decides to buy it! Now, that's exactly what happened at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition in December last year. The standards were very very high, I got one painting in, and I was so happy that before the Private View had even kicked off at 3.30pm on the day, a lovely lady came to tap me on the back and simply said, "I am excited to buy your painting, can you come over and take a picture when I put the red dot on it!"-That was a great feeling, also it was the second work to sell at the Exhibition which was very successful!

And the Red Dot is placed....

Later on after Carole had picked up the painting from the Mall Galleries she invited me for a get together with 20 of her friends and we all had a nice evening unveiling the painting, while I also introduced the guy I painted and how I came about sketching and painting him. It was a marvelous evening. It's the third time in my life as an artist that I've got the chance to actually see the new home where my painting would be living for a long while. Most of the time these works are purchased off the gallery wall and that's it-never to be seen again! But this was a night with a difference, thanks Carole!

Adebanji and Carole with Painting at the Mall Galleries.

Adebanji, the sketch and the painting at it's new home

Adebanji with Carole and the painting at it's new home

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"Drawing is everything. When I was sixteen, I made over 400 drawings during that winter and spring. I drew mostly with a 2B pencil on typewriter paper. I drew during every spare moment. I’m heartened when I see your sketchbooks and see the way you’re always drawing at the Concept workshops. You remind me of me. When I was teaching university, I was disheartened by students who hadn’t paid their drawing dues, for unless you practice, you simply don’t know how to make lovely lines."-William Whitaker"Drawing is the basis of everything. All the way through the painting you must be questioning the drawing, right up to the very end. Otherwise you get the drawing right and fill it in with colour. As long as you get the effect you want, that's the important thing. You can use a piece of rag, a sable brush, a hoghair brush or a knife - it doesn't matter what."

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About Me

I am a little bloke with a big heart. I love the LORD cos he made me what I am today. I have a wonderful wife Ruth and a budding painter boy JOSH! He is 7 and a little girl who is 3!
I love sketching the human face, especially the people I meet from day to day, people I may never meet again!
So I sieze the opportunity, it's something that keeps me loving the place we all share.